White The Poetics of Visuality

Ekphrasis, Material Agency, and the Visual Imagination in Biblical Antiquity
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-16-163345-4
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 182, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 232 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 591 g

Reihe: Forschungen zum Alten Testament

Justin J. White explores the nature of images in ancient Israel through a reconceptualization of the relationship between image and text. He proposes that in ancient Israel, texts evoked images as a core part of their rhetoric. Rather than conceptualizing texts and images as ontologically or functionally distinct media, he argues that both media are mixed media even while neither medium is reducible to the other. In order to make this argument, he focuses on the visual aspects of textual rhetoric—what he terms "the poetics of visuality." He builds his argument across three text-specific axes of visual rhetoric: ekphrasis, the visual imagination and material agency. He makes the claim that each of these three axes are endemic to Israelite literature, and mutually contribute to the formation of a robust ontology of visual representation in ancient Israel.

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, Justin J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

White, Justin J.
Born 1983; independent scholar researching ancient and modern iconology, philosophy of visual communication in Mediterranean antiquity, and materiality and religion; 2020 PhD with Distinction from Yale University.